Question Question about Retro Game Emulation Systems...

[jk_1966]

Hello,
So far I believed that on the various Retro Emulation Systems like RetroArch, RetroPie etc. only the game ROMs are illegal to publicly share with others. What about the emulated machines' BIOSes? They come along with the emulator system you download, don't they? There is no need for someone to search them individually I suppose...

 

[TerryLaze]

Hello,
What about the emulated machines' BIOSes? They come along with the emulator system you download, don't they?

They don't, at least not with the legal distributions, there are some BIOSes that are reverse engineered and don't have anything copyrighted in them but other than that you are supposed to take a copy of the bios of your real machine.